Oil burner



Jami 7, 1936.

L. W. HOLM ES OIL BURNER Filed 001;. 24, 1950 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 v A ORNEY Jan.7,1936 Lw. HOLMES' 2,027,101

OIL BURNER Filed Oct. 24, 1930 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 E 2 .1 INV NTOR.

ORNEY Jan. 7, 1936. Q L. w. HOLMES 2,027,101

OIL BURNER Filed Oct. 24, 1930 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 V BY 6Q V I RNEY Patented Jan. 7, 1936 OIL BURNER Leslie W. Holmes, Stratford, Conn, assignor to Oronoque Oil Burner Corporation, New York,

N. Y., a corporation of Delaware Application October 24, 1930, Serial No. 490,921

14 Claims. (01. 158-86) This invention relates to oil burners, and more particularly, to means for mounting the same in the ash pit or base of a stove or heater respectively.

In oil burners of this type where a single burner unit is used, it is usually a simple matter to place the burner in the desired position in the stove or heater for use and to adjust it vertically for height. However, when two or more burner units rare desired, it is frequently diflicult to place the several units in the desired positions in the stove, except where the burners need to be adjusted toward or from each other in a straight line a limited extent, which has been provided for by .',:the prior art by having horizontal arms on the supporting standard with slots to receive bolts passing through the burner units.

An object of the present invention is to provide a mounting for a plurality of burner unitswhereby the units may be universally adjusted in a horzontal plane individually, and collectively adjusted vertically so that the several burners may be placed in any position at all in a common horizontal plane.

This is accomplished by the structure shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is an elevation of the support of the present invention, showing the burners in the positions which they occupy when adjusted in a line perpendicular to the front or back of the stove.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the supporting means and the base portions of the burner units, showing the burner units located .at different distances toward and from a wall of the stove, and showing in dot-and-dash lines another possible position of the burners in which they are located closer together than in either Fig. 1 or in full lines in this figure. V

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the spider on which the supporting standard is mounted.

Fig. 4 is a plan view similar to Fig. 2, but showing the burners adjusted toward the front or back wall of the fire box.

Fig. 5 is a View similar to Figs. 2 and 4, but showing two of the burner units located as far apart from each other as possible with a third unit interposed between them.

Fig. 6 is a plan View of a modification of this invention.

Fig. 7 is an elevation of a portion of the standard or vertical support on which the burner-carrying arms are directly mounted.

Fig.3 is a plan view of another modification i of this invention, wherein rows of holes arev substituted for the adjusting slots in the burner base and its carrying arm.

Fig. 9 is an elevation showing the burner base and its carrying arm partly in section, and showing a coupling pin substituted for the bolt used 5 in the other forms of the invention for supporting the burner base on the arm in any of the possible adjusted positions, and also showing a modified form of mounting for the burner-carrying arm on the vertical support. 10

Fig. 10 is a detail view showing a further modification of the means for mounting the carrying arm on the vertical support.

The burner units l0 may be of any usual, suitable, or desirable form and construction, and acl5 cordingly, the drawing shows a conventional form of burner. When only one burner I0 is needed in a stove or heater, it may, with convenience, be located at any desired place in the ash pit of the stove. However, frequently it is desired to have a plurality of burnersand these usually are placed directly beneath the stove-holes so that the heat rising from the burner units may impinge upon a cooking utensil located over the stove-hole. The stove-holes are variously arranged in different stoves .and heaters and thus a large variety of standards or supports would be needed to mount the burner units in the desired positions. This difilculty has been partially overcome heretofore by providing the standard with a pair of oppositely directed arms, each of which has a slot to receive a bolt to fasten the burner unit to the standard in various positions in a horizontal plane and in a straight line extending from the front to the back of the stove.

However, there are many cases where this simple adjustment would not sufiice, and accordingly, the present invention provides a universal mounting for the burners in a horizontal plane and for adjusting the mounting means so that the burners may be adjusted in common vertically.

Accordingly, in the device of the present invention, a standard 1 I which is supported at its lower end by a spider l2 has slidably mounted on its upper end a head I3 which is'located in the desired vertical position on the standard H by a set-screw 14. The head 13 has a plurality of radially extending arms l5, each of which has a hole It near its ends. The arms preferably extend at right-angles to each other and usually only the opposite arms l5 are utilized, as shown in Figs.

2 and 4. Each arm l5 may be pivotally connected to an extension arm I! by a bolt [8 passing through the hole IS in the arm l5, and since these extensionarms I! carry the burner units to, by

desired position. For instance, the extension arms l'i may form a straight angle as shown in Figs. 1 and.4.

To permit the burner units H] to be adjusted toward and from each other, either when the extension'arms H are located in a straight line as shown in Fig. 4, or when they are angularly disposed as shownin Fig.2, each extension arm I1 is provided with an elongated slot 20. through which a bolt 2| connected to a base 22 of a burner unit l0 extends. Thus, by loosening the bolt 2|, the unit with the bolt may be slid from say a position where the bolt is located near the end of the arm as shown in full-lines in Fig. 2, to a position where the bolt is located near the inner end of the slot 2|] and close to the bolt |8 on which the extension 7 arm I! is pivotally mounted, as shown in dot-and-dash lines in Fig. 2. Of course, each burner unit I0 is separately adjustable along 'the slotted extension arm IT and if desired one unit Ill, for instance the right-hand unit in Fig. 4, may be located with its bolt 2| near the outside end of the slot 20, while the other unit It] may have its bolt 2| located near the inner end of the slot 2|) of the other arm, thereby moving the units closer to the front or back wall 23 of the stove.

To permit a further separation or closer juxtapositioning of, the units I0 than would be permitted by the slots 20 in the arms I 1 and for other purposes, the base 22 of each unit may, and preferably is, provided with an elongated slot 24 through which the bolt 2| extends and along which slot the unit may be adjusted with relation to the bolt. V

For instance, as shown in Fig. 5, the units It] may each have its bolt 2| located at the end of its slot 24 while the bolt 2| is located at the end of the slot 20 in the extension arm ll, thus permitting the burner units ill to lie as far apart as the supporting devices will permit, 'or the bolt 2| may be located mid-way between the ends of the slot 2*- as shown in Fig. 2, or at any intermediate position. The slots 2 may also be utilized to move the burner units If) toward or from the wall i9 which extends from the front of the stove to the back without necessitating the adjustment of the extension arms H, as shown in Fig. 4, if

desired.

Of course, as many of the radially disposed arms l5 as desired may be provided with extension arms l1, depending upon the number of burner units Ii] needed. For instance, as shown in Fig. 5, three extension arms H are employed because there are three units l0. In this arrangement of the invention, the central burner unit |0 may be located between the other two which are spread far apart by reason of the bolt 2| being at the ends of the slots 2!! and 24, and for the same reason the central unit may be located close to a line running through the centers of the two other units.

The spider |2 on which the standard I is supported, is provided with a plurality of slots 25 through which bolts 26 serving to hold the spider to the floor 2'! of the ash pit may extend, the burner being brought to proper level by adjusting screws 28 carried by the ends of the spider arms 29.

In case the supporting member of the oil burner 5 merely rests on the bottom 2! of the ash pit instead of being secured thereto in fixed position as shown in Fig. 1, under which circumstance it may be bodily adjusted in the ash pit, one of the arms, for instance the arm i'la, Fig. 6, may be rigidly secured to, or. form part of, the head l3, while the other arm ll may be pivoted on the bolt I8 and have a longitudinal slot 28 engaged by the bolt 2| which also passes through the diametrically disposed slot 2 3 in the burner base 22 carried by the pivoted arm i'i. Thus, to adjust the burners relative to each other, only the burner unit carried by the pivoted arm need be adjusted, for the supporting standard and its spider may be moved bodily to move the other burner relative to the walls of the fire box. The fixed arm l'la. may have a longitudinally disposed slot 20a for the purpose of permitting the burners to be moved farther apart than would be permitted if only the pivoted arm Ilc were provided with the 25 longitudinal slot 20.

Within the scope of this invention, the head l3 may, of course, be omitted entirely as shown in Fig. '7, in which the pivoted arms |'|b= directly engage the standard II and have set-screws 30 v by means of which they' are held in the position to which they may be adjusted about the standard II. In this case, the arms l'lb may be held in desired vertical position while being adjusted horizontally by a pair of adjustable collars 3| 35 fixed to the standard I by set-screws 32.

This invention is not limited to the provision of slots in the arms I! and in the bases 22 of the burners for permitting the adjustment referred to, but other adjustable connections may be em- 40 ployed, such, for instance, as shown in Fig. 8, in which each arm H0 is provided with a longitudinally extending row of holes 33 and the web of the burner base is provided with a diametrical row of holes 34 for receiving the bolt 2| by means 5 of which the base of the burner is held in desired position on the arm and at several places along the arm. This is accomplished by placing the burner in the desired position and then shifting the burner until one of its holds 34 aligns with the nearest hole 33 on the arm Ilc. When this arrangement is made, a stud or pin 35, as shown in Fig. 9, may be substituted for the bolt in some cases. r

It is also within the scope of this invention to merely rotatably support one or more of the burner-supporting arms instead of both rotatably supporting and securing the arm, as

, shown in Figs. 1 to 5. Such an arrangement is illustrated in Fig. 9, wherein the head i3 is provided with studs 36 fitting holes 31 in the burner-carrying arms Nd and, of course, this arrangement may be reversed as shown in Fig. 10, wherein the arm l'lehas a stud 38 fitting a hole 39 in the head I3.

Variations and modifications may be made within the scope of this invention and portions of the improvements may be used without others.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and for which it is desired to obtain Letters Patent, is:-

1; In an oil burner having a plurality of burner units, a standard adapted to be secured on a supporting surface; a head mounted on said standard common to said plurality of burner 7 units; a plurality of arms extending outwardly from said head, one for each burner, each of said arms having an elongated slot extending longitudinally thereof; means engaging said slot at any point therealong for adjustably securing a burner unit to the arm in desired position; and means for pivotally mounting each arm on said head and permitting adjustment of the burner unitsrotatably about the standard.

2. In an oil burner having a plurality of burner units, a standard adapted to be secured on a supporting surface; a head mounted on said standard common to said plurality of burner units; a plurality of arms extending outwardly from said head, one for each burner, each of said arms having an elongated slot extending, longitudinally thereof; a base for each burner.

unit having an elongated slot extending diametrically thereof; and means adjustably located in the diametrical slot in each burner base and adjustably located in the elongated slot of the arm carrying said burner unit for securing the latter and its arm in adjusted position.

3. In an oil burner having a plurality of burner units, a standard adapted to be secured on a supporting surface; a head mounted on said standard common to said plurality of burner units; a plurality of arms extending outwardly from said head, one for each burner, each of said arms having an elongated slot extending longitudinally thereof; a base for each burner unit having an elongated slot extending diametrically thereof; means adjustably located in the diametrical slot in each burner base and adjustably located in the elongated slot of the arm carrying said burner unit for securing the latter and its arm in adjusted position; and means for pivotally mounting each of said arms on said head and permitting adjustment of the burner units rotatably about the standard.

4. In an oil burner having a plurality of burner units, a standard adapted to be secured on a supporting surface; a head mounted on said standard common to said plurality of burner units; a plurality of arms extending ontwardly from said head, one for each burner, each of said arms having an elongated slot extending longitudinally thereof; a base for each burner unit having an elongated slot extending diametrically thereof; means adjustably located in the diametrical slot in each burner base and adjustably located in the elongated slot of the arm carrying said burner unit for securing the latter and its-arm in adjusted position; means for pivotally mounting each of said arms on said head and permitting adjustment of the burner units rotatably about the standard; and means for adjusting the head, the arms and burner units supported thereby vertically on the standard.

5. In an oil burner, a plurality of burner units; a vertical support common to said units; means for securing said support to the floor of'a firebox in a stove in fixed position; a plurality of horizontal arms each carrying one of said burner units; and means for securing the arms to the vertical support and permitting adjustment of the arms and the burner units carried thereby rotatably in a horizontal plane relative to each other and to the vetrical support to locate the burners in desired position relative to the walls and top of the stove.

6. In an oil burner, a pair of burner units; a vertical support common to said burner units; means for mounting said support on the floor of a fire-box in a stove in fixed position; and

means for supporting said burner units on said vertical support including a horizontal arm secured to one of said burner units and rotatably mounted on the vertical support for movement with the burner unit which it carries in a horizontal plane relative to the vetrical support and the other burner unit supported thereby.

7. In an oil burner, a pair of burner units; a vertical support common to said units; means for mounting said support on-the floor of a firebox in a stove in fixed position; and means for supporting said burner units on said vertical support including a horizontal arm carrying one of said burner units and rotatably mounted on the vertical support for movement with the burner unit which it carries in a horizontal plane relative to the vertical support and the other burner unit, and means for adjustably securing the burner unit carried by said horizontal arm relative thereto to permit adjustment of the lastmentioned burner unit toward and from the vertical support and the other burner units supported thereby.

8. In an oil burner, a plurality of burner units; a vertical support common to said units; and means for supporting said burner units on said vertical support including a horizontal arm carrying one of said burner units and rotatably mounted on the vertical support for movement with the burner unit which it carries in a horizontal plane relative to the vertical support and the other burner unit, and means including a bolt engaging the burner unit and a longitudinally extending slot in said horizontal arm for adjustably securing the burner unit carried by said horizontal arm relative thereto to permit adjustment of the last-mentioned burner unit toward and from the, vertical support and the other burner units supported thereby.

9. In an oil burner, a plurality of burner units; a vertical support common to said units; and means for supporting said burner units on said vertical support including a horizontal arm carrying one of said burner units and rotatably mounted on the vertical support for movement with the burner unit which it carries in a horizontal plane relative to the vertical support and the other burner unit, and means including a bolt and a diametrically disposed slot in the base of the burner unit carried by said horizontal arm for adjustably securing the latter thereto and permitting its adjustment bodily and rotatably with relation to the said horizontal arm.

10. In an oil burner, a pair of burner units; a vertical support common to said units; and means for supporting said burner units on said vertical support including a horizontal arm car- I ,to permit adjustment of the last-mentioned burner unit toward and from the vertical support and the other burner units supported thereby and bodily and rotatably with relation to the horizontal arm on which the said adjustable unit is carried. I

11. In an oil burner, a pair of burner units; a vertical support common to said units; and

means for securing said burner units to said support for adjustment with relation to the other including a diametrically disposed elongated slot in the base of one of said burner units, a horizontally disposed member on the vertical support, and a bolt passing through said slot in the horizontal member for securing the said burner unit to the horizontal member in various positions with relation thereto and to the other burner unit of the support, and a bolt passing through said slots for securing the burner unit to the horizontal member in various positions to which it may be adjusted bodily or radially at various points along the horizontal member relative to the latter and to the other burner unit carried by the support.

13. In an oil burner, a plurality of burner units; a vertical support common thereto having a horizontally disposed member; and means for adjusting said burner units one relative to the other bodily along said horizontal member and bodily with relation to said horizontal member at a point therealong at which it is adjusted.

' 14. In an oil burner, a plurality of burner units; and means for supporting said units for adjustment toward or from each other along a straight line or arcuate path.

LESLIE W. HOLMES. 

